Photos of the Week: 4/8–4/14

South African protests against President Zuma, thousands of bicycles in Beijing, refugees flee fighting in South Sudan, more scenes from Holy Week, a Russian space capsule returns from the International Space Station, Irish dancing in Dublin, and much more.

An Israeli man playfully throws a child in a field of ranunculus flowers in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak, located along the Israeli-Gaza Strip border, during the Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover) on April 12, 2017.#

Russia's Soyuz MS-02 space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew members—NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos—descends before landing in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on April 10, 2017.#

A boy dressed as a punk stands in a park in central Yangon on April 12, 2017. Every year, the group gathers to celebrate on the eve of Thingyan. The four southeast Asian nations of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos start the Buddhist new year, known as Thingyan in Myanmar and Songkran in Thailand, on April 13.#

A Police officer bows her head as she stands along the route in Southwark as the funeral procession of Police Constable Keith Palmer makes its way to Southwark Cathedral, on April 10, 2017 in London, England. Palmer was killed in a terrorist attack in Westminster while on duty on March 22, 2017.#

A worker sprays water onto the statue of King Sejong for a spring cleaning at the Gwanghwamun Plaza in Seoul, South Korea, on April 10, 2017. King Sejong, the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), created the Korean alphabet, Hangul, in 1446.#

An altar of a damaged church is seen in the town of Qaraqosh, south of Mosul, Iraq, on April 11, 2017. With ISIS expelled, Iraqi Christians are trickling back to the ransacked town of Qaraqosh, beset by anxiety for their security and yet hopeful they can live in friendship with Muslims of all persuasions. The town, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the battlefront with ISIS in the northern city of Mosul, shows why Christians have mixed feelings about the future of their ancient community. In the desecrated churches of Qaraqosh, Christians are busy removing graffiti daubed by the Sunni Muslim militants during two and a half years of control—only for new slogans to have appeared, scrawled by Shi'ite members of the Iraqi forces fighting street to street with the jihadists in Mosul.#

A competitor makes his way up a manhole as competitors take part in the annual McVities Mud Madness 8-kilometer cross-country run on April 9, 2017, in Portadown, Northern Ireland. The two-lap race over 25 obstacles is in aid of the Marie Curie charity.#

An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Staff Sergeant Mark De Alencar, 37, of Edgewood, Maryland, on April 10, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. According to the Department of Defense, De Alencar died April 8 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small-arms fire during combat operations, while supporting Operation Freedom Sentinel.#

A Canadian bagpiper plays during the sunset ceremony at Vimy Canadian National Memorial on the eve of a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, in Vimy, France, on April 8, 2017.#

The Race for Water Foundation's hydrogen and solar multihull leaves the harbor of Lorient on April 9, 2017, for its round-the-world tour to promote efficient solutions to struggle against plastic and environmental pollution.#

A newly-arrived refugee child from South Sudan sleeps on a dirty floor at the Ngomoromo border post on the Ugandan side on April 10, 2017. According to a statement from the UNHCR, more than 6,000 people have fled into the northern Ugandan district of Lamwo since the start of the fighting in the South Sudan town of Pajok. Fighting between government forces and rebels erupted on April 3, 2017.#

A member of the Palestinian Fateh Movement fires an RPG during clashes that erupted between the Palestinian Fatah Movement and Islamists in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on April 9, 2017. Ein el-Hilweh, the largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, is notorious for its lawlessness and is home to some extremists who sympathize with the Islamic State group and al-Qaeda.#

A Chinese mechanic from bike share company Ofo Inc. wheels a fixed bicycle past thousands of damaged bicycles in need of repair that were pulled off the streets where they are kept at a repair depot for the company on March 29, 2017, in Beijing, China. The popularity of bike shares has exploded in the past year with more than two dozen providers now battling for market share in major cities across China. The bikes are hailed as an efficient, cheap, and environmentally-friendly solution for commuters, where riders unlock the stationless bicycles using a mobile phone app, drop them anywhere for the next user, and spend as little as 1 yuan ($0.15) per hour. Given the bikes have several users a day—some of them inexperienced riders who swerve into traffic—they are often damaged, vandalized, or abandoned. Companies like Ofo routinely collect the battered two-wheelers and bring them to a makeshift depot that is part-repair shop, part-graveyard where they are either salvaged or scrapped.#

Members of the opposition parties protest outside the union build in Pretoria, South Africa, on April 12, 2017. South Africa's opposition groups marked the 75th birthday of President Jacob Zuma with a protest against him, pushing for his resignation because of scandals and his dismissal of a widely respected finance minister.#

Migrants try to stay afloat after falling off their rubber raft during a rescue operation by the Malta-based NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship in the central Mediterranean in international waters some 15 nautical miles off the coast of Zawiya in Libya, on April 14, 2017. All 134 sub-Saharan migrants survived and were rescued by MOAS.#

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A week after 17 people were murdered in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, teenagers across South Florida, in areas near Washington, D.C., and in other parts of the United States walked out of their classrooms to stage protests against the horror of school shootings and to advocate for gun law reforms.